Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilmington, Del., last week from the test field for Bellanca planes, George Haldeman lifted his stock Bellanca Pacemaker, powered with a Wright Whirlwind 300 h. p. motor. He was in the air for 1 hr. 16 min. During that time he had hoisted his ship to a new commercial plane altitude record of 33,500 feet. The previous record was 25,700 feet...
...provided glider licenses for both Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, the combined Lindbergh and William Hawley Bowlus forces brought forth a record last week. At San Diego, Bowlus, in his slender, wide-winged, motorless plane soared into the wee hours of the morning for 9 hr. 5 min. He failed to break the German world's record of better than 14 hr., but established a new U. S. mark. Later he helped his famous friend into a brand new glider, saw him take off at La Jolla, watched him stay in the air for 15 minutes. Other...
Duration with weight; distance with weight: Dieudonne Costes and Paul Codos, in one flight, over Marseilles, flew 2,048 mi., in 18 hr. 1 min. with one gross ton of cargo in a Brequet with Hispano-Suiza motor...
...Coach E. A. Farrell is concentrating on the mile and two mile relay teams to raise the Crimson point total into the winning column. The one mile team of V. L. Hennessey '30, E. E. Record '32, F. E. Cummings '30. and Vernon Munroe Jr. '31 which clipped 1 min. 2-5 sec. off the Triangular Meet record for that event with scarcely any opposition last Monday night. will be forced to the limit tonight when it matches strides with the Georgetown quartet which is rated as one of the best of the season...
...mile relay--Won by Harvard (Hennessy, Cummings, Record and Munroe); second, Dartmouth (Noyes, Wilson, Alcorn, and Pratt). Time--3 min., 27 1-5 sec. (New record...